Swiss Logistics Award 2017: These are the four finalists
Autonomous drones for transporting blood samples, refrigerated food thanks to kinetic energy, telephone booths as multiservice stations, and full customer control over last-mile parcel delivery: These four projects are vying for the Swiss Logistics Award on November 29, 2017. The prize will be awarded for the 22nd time by GS1 Switzerland.
The Swiss Logistics Award goes to a company for special market and customer-oriented process solutions that have demonstrably initiated above-average market success with their implementation. The jury nominated the following four projects for the award:
DPD (Schweiz) AG: Recipients control parcel delivery with "Follow My Parcel
Via the "Follow My Parcel" portal, the recipient of the private parcel service provider DPD Switzerland can actively monitor and control the delivery of his parcel over the last mile. During delivery, he can check the location of his parcel at any time thanks to GPS and Google Maps. In addition, he has various delivery options that he can use free of charge up to 15 minutes before delivery. A new, optimized route is automatically suggested to the driver after the recipient changes the delivery.
Swiss Post: Drones in use for health
Swiss Post wants to use autonomous transport drones to make healthcare logistics more efficient, improve patient treatment and reduce costs. It is currently testing a link for transporting blood samples between the Ospedale Italiano and the Ospedale Civico in Lugano. This will reduce transport time by 70 percent and process costs by 80 percent.
railCare AG: Cooling rail transport with kinetic energy thanks to "rCE-Powerpack
With the "rCE-Powerpack" system, railCare AG cools or tempers food and other goods during rail transport with kinetic energy instead of fuel. The energy is generated directly while the train is moving, stored in batteries and fed into the refrigeration units via load cells. The system is controlled and monitored via GPS. According to railCare, the "rCE Powerpack" reduces CO2 emissions by 75 % and noise emissions by 30-35 %.
Swissprime Technologies AG: Repurposing telephone booths as variable multiservice stations
Former telephone booths become multi-service stations: That's what Swissprime Technologies AG wants with its "Omphalos" project. Private individuals or businesses can use the refrigerated or non-refrigerated lockers in the converted phone booths as pickup stations for ordered goods, to exchange documents or to deposit products. Access authorizations to the lockers are cloud-based with the access and authorization management solution www.kleverkey.com managed.
Presentation of the Swiss Logistics Award on 29 November
The winning project will be presented with the Swiss Logistics Award at the BallyHouse in Schönenwerd on November 29, 2017. Until this has been decided, the jury of twelve representatives of the Swiss logistics industry will certainly hold dedicated discussions.
More information about the projects: www.gs1network.ch
